Nik Rahmel
Software Engineering Manager II at Spotify
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolNik Rahmel is a software engineering leader with 12 years of experience, currently managing multi-disciplinary teams at Spotify focused on mobile, C++ core, and backend Java within fast-moving format incubation. He previously led transformative engineering efforts at the BBC, driving remote-first reorganizations, hiring and promotion programs, and delivery of audience-facing and newsroom innovation across iPlayer and News Labs. Nik blends a background in TV/media and hands-on engineering—spanning Node.js, TypeScript, Python, Scala, iOS and cloud platforms—with product-facing responsibilities for experimentation, personalization and live-event workflows. He is experienced scaling teams through change while preserving delivery quality and operational observability for high-traffic consumer products. Comfortable working at the intersection of journalism and video/broadcast technology, he brings a rare mix of editorial empathy and technical rigor. Based in London, he pairs a practical, inclusive management style with a curiosity for prototype-driven product discovery.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Postgraduate Certificate Technology Management, Postgraduate Certificate Technology Management at The Open UniversityA-Level Physics Maths Business Studies German Chemistry (AS), A-Level Physics Maths Business Studies German Chemistry (AS) at Bloxham SchoolMittlere Reife Additional: Maths Physics Computer Science, Mittlere Reife Additional: Maths Physics Computer Science at Erzbischöfliches Suitbertus-GymnasiumBachelor of Science with Honours Information Technology Management for Business, Bachelor of Science with Honours Information Technology Management for Business at University of Exeter
German, English
Stackoverflow
175reputation
11kreached
1answer
0questions
Github Skills (117)
dashboard10
postgresql10
grafana10
message-queue10
polling10
elasticsearch10
serverless10
rpm-spec10
influxdb10
backend10
monitoring10
dynamodb10
data-visualization10
queue10
observability10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
xtv-online/football-graphics
Oct 2015 - Aug 2016
HTML5 templates and control application for CasparCG for association football
Contributions:44 commits, 6 PRs, 7 pushes in 9 months
html5-template
xtv-online/live-tools
Jun 2015 - Feb 2016
A node.js based system for providing show critical services on XTV live broadcasts.
Contributions:1 release, 100 commits, 17 pushes in 8 months
nodejs
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.